Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I have had my MP-7 for a couple of months now and frankly I love it. 
I am familiar with other emu proteus models and of course Im a big 
fan of the wavetables that E-mu makes. But now Ive been using it for 
sometime I have some questions about the sequencing aspect of the 
command station. I'm suspecting rEalm will be able to help me out the 
most here. 
 
1. Whats the deal with the effects, yeah they are a bit weak, but how 
does this whole "send" thing work. Am I right in thinking that the 
output send is a function of the PRESET??? Can this be so ridiculous? 
If I want a preset Becky Boise with a send3 output I have to save the 
kit as a special user preset even though the only difference is the 
send output. Surely the channel sends should be a function of the 
Pattern and not the preset. 

2. Is it just me or do the Mod1 Mod2 Wild1 Wild2 knobs do nothing. 
(except Mod2 always shifts the pitch, who does that with a knob 
anyway?)Where can I change the parameters of these knobs? They are 
programmable right? I understand how the Wild works with the beats 
mode but can we assign them to have a funciton on the non-beats 
presets also?

3. How can I change the length of a note that i have inputted using 
grid recording? With my roland MC307 the Step(EMU grid) and Event(EMU 
step) Work hand in hand for total control over events. Does anyone 
understand the XX-7 step recording here?

4. When using the Step recorder and viewing in 16th notes, How can I 
get 1.3 2.3 3.3 etc in the LCD display without having to play/pause? 
Pressing edit while the bar/beat is illuminated and then turning the 
control wheel only changes the whole bar. Wouldn't that be fancy if 
we could also scroll to half measures?

Those are my questions for now. Even though I think Em-U quite 
possibly had their headz up their arses when designing the sequencer 
portion (And are still bastards for not giving the sounddiver people 
the Sysex information) I really am a giant fan of this machine. Too 
bad my only choices were a hip hop soundset or a trance soundset. 
guess Ill have to get an expansion. 

                                       Thanks in advance

                                               neverwin

On 2/18/03 3:49 PM, "drewaight1 <drewaight@...>"
<drewaight@...> wrote:

> 1. Whats the deal with the effects, yeah they are a bit weak, but how
> does this whole "send" thing work. Am I right in thinking that the
> output send is a function of the PRESET??? Can this be so ridiculous?
> If I want a preset Becky Boise with a send3 output I have to save the
> kit as a special user preset even though the only difference is the
> send output. Surely the channel sends should be a function of the
> Pattern and not the preset.
> 

The send busses each have an amount fed into the EFX processors.  This
amount is global for the entire XX-7 synthesizer.  It can either be set from
a global setting (in Global) or controlled by one of the 32 channels of your
choice.  if you elect the last option is is pretty easy to use a dummy patch
on that channels as an effects patch giving you the benefit of being able to
control the eight total send levels (one per each of two effects, times four
busses) in real-time using QuickEdit knobs.  With some clever use of the
limited busses you can get some useful real-time control over the effects.

BTW I'm not debate the sanity of the E-mu scheme.


drk

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1. Whats the deal with the effects, yeah they are a bit weak, but how 
does this whole "send" thing work. Am I right in thinking that the 
output send is a function of the PRESET??? Can this be so ridiculous? 
If I want a preset Becky Boise with a send3 output I have to save the 
kit as a special user preset even though the only difference is the 
send output. Surely the channel sends should be a function of the 
Pattern and not the preset.

>>>Depends on how you have your box configured.  If the effects are set to 
Multimode Control, then they get saved with the pattern.  If you set them 
up as "Preset on Channel X", then they get saved with the Preset.  Check 
the FAQ I wrote in the files section of this group, whole chapter on just 
this topic. <<<

2. Is it just me or do the Mod1 Mod2 Wild1 Wild2 knobs do nothing.

>>>Depends on the Preset, some use them, some don't. <<<

Where can I change the parameters of these knobs? They are programmable 
right? I understand how the Wild works with the beats mode but can we 
assign them to have a funciton on the non-beats presets also?

>>>Yes, you can change these in the Preset Edit mode, you want the 
Patchcords section (the letters A, B, C, etc correspond to the knobs). <<<

How can I change the length of a note that i have inputted using grid 
recording? 

>>>YOu can't yet while IN grdi mode, wait til OS 2.0, there's a great new 
addition that deals with this (fun stuff!).  In the meantime, you could 
use Scale/Shift Duration in the Pattern Edit menu to extend your notes. 
<<<

Does anyone understand the XX-7 step recording here?

>>>Everyone but you. :)  J/k! <<<

4. When using the Step recorder and viewing in 16th notes, How can I 
get 1.3 2.3 3.3 etc in the LCD display without having to play/pause? 
Pressing edit while the bar/beat is illuminated and then turning the 
control wheel only changes the whole bar. Wouldn't that be fancy if 
we could also scroll to half measures?

>>>Pressing Play while in Step Mode will advance you one step equal to the 
current input quantize. so you could set the input quantize to 1/2, then 
press play to advance one half measure. <<<

rEalm


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